Classwork for 12/9

The Roman Republic collapsed because of a lot of reasons. One of the reasons Rome's Republic failed was the use of violence by the Roman elite. A lot of violence was happening like the murder of Tiberius and Gaius. Another reason was that Roman Generals like Caesar, Marius and Sulla. The Republic stateman were being bribed. The Italians were landless because of wars. One Republic Stateman was a monarch and later became the first roman Emperor.

HW#2

HW#2 by Christian Solarte
1.
Civil War: It is conflict between groups within the same country, followed their deaths.
Julius Caesar: Emerged to bring order to Rome.
Triumvirate: It is a group of three rulers.
Absolute Ruler: It is some one who has total power.

Augustus: It is the title that Octavian was given and it could also mean exalted one.

Pax Romana: Roman peace.

Gladiator: It is professional fighters who fought to the death in public contests for entertainment.

2.

• Almost 90% of the people were farmers.
• A silver coin named Adenarius was in used the empire.
• Rome had a network for trading.
• Agriculture was very important in the empire.
• Rome had made trade between each parts of the Empire.

The change that I consider negative is that about 90% of the people were farmers, because it there is low percentage of other jobs that need to be done.

3. The role that Julius Caesar played in the decline of the republic and the rise of the empire is that he emerged to bring order to Rome and dominated Rome as a triumvirate.

The one thing that interests me is the way the Romans traded among each other.

HW#4

HW#4
1. They were both raised away from there uncle because there mother but them in a basket into the Tiber river and then raised by a she wolf.
2. They were the founders of there land and they also built it.
3. Romulus became the only ruler because he killed his brother after a fight with him.
4. It took place in 753 B.C. in the myth.
5. It took place in 1000 B.C. said by archaeologists.
6. It came from a tribe in Rome called Latins, they were from the Plains of Latium.
7. The name of the river that Rome was found near was The  Tiber river.
8. The difference between Historical facts and Creation myths is that Historical facts is something that is backed up by facts, Creation myths is something not really baked up by facts.
9. Creation myths is more interesting because it is a little exaggerating from the truth and told to amuse.
10. Our creation myth is the story of Adam and Eve.

HW#3

HW#1 (MP2)

HW#1 (MP2)
This video is about the Persian that were in a war against the Greek ,to be more specific the Athenians from Athens which is a city-state from Greece, the war was called The Persian War. In the video, it was being told by a boy that looks like a college student and he was accurate when talking about The Persian War and how The Athenians won the war against the Persians. He said that Greece was mostly mountains that divided it so that made it harder to have interaction between the cities So then they were now Polans which are City-states. He said that the Athenians build this new weapon which was a boat with armor to crash into the Persian boats. These boats were very important , because it helped the Athenians defeat the Persians. The boats were very light weight and fast and that gave the Athenians there advantage.

HW#8 Hammurabi's Law

1. The first civilization on Earth to have a written legal code was Babylon.

2. Hammurabi Ordeal is a old painful test of guilt and innocence that the Babylonians used on people that are guilty of something to prove or to show that they are guilty. They would get an extremely hot metal spoon and make the person or people lick the spoon and the Mobashi would test the tongues if they would be guilty or not. The Ordeal is still used in some tribes today.

3. The Famous book that the Hammurabi's laws help create was the Bible.

4. Hammurabi only wrote down the laws down.

Current Events

Ayodhya verdict: Indian holy site to be divided,  by Doesn't say the Author
30 September 2010, BBCNews.com

This article is about a holy site in India that had been divided into two parts Hindus and Muslims. A major verdict in India dicided to split the Holy sites into two parts. In 1992 the Hindus had distroyed of a Mosque and that led into riot that had cause more than 2,000 deaths. It was one of the worst religious violence. I choosed this article, because anything that involves riots interest me more then most topics. The article is connected to what we studied in class, because it took place in India and we studied somethings about India like there early Civilizations.

HW#7

HW#7
1)
Fertile Crescent: The region's curved shape and the richness of its land.
Silt: As the flood leaves, it left a thick bed of mud.
Irrigation: To dig ditches that carried river water to there fields that allowed a surplus of crops.
City-State: When each city and surrounding land is controlled.
Dynasty: A series of rulers from a single family.
Cultural Diffusion: When a new idea or product is spread from one culture to another.
Polytheism: To belief in many gods.
Empire: Brings together several people, nations, and states are under the control of one ruler.
Hammurabi: When the Babylonian Empire reached its peak during the region of Hammurabi.

2)
Challenge 1: There was no transportaion and the solution was to create the wheel and the sail.
Challenge 2: There were floods so they built an irrigation so the river water can go to crops and they would be watered.
Challenge 3: There was no way to communicate so the solution was to create a written alphabet.

3)
The advantages for living in cities offer the people of acient mesopotamia were that thay had all they needed to live and survive. Almost all of the modern cities today have all they need to live and survive.

Map Question 1: The Euphrates river and the Tigris river valley is found on Mestopotamia.
Map Question 2: The Pysical Characteristics of the valley is that it runs through Mesopotamia and it connects to the Persian Gulf.

Video 1: The Sumerians develop written language, because they needed to keep record of what happened each year.
Video 2:
1) Widged shaped is the type of writing that is Cuneiform.
2) They way they wrote was on plates of clay thet made the clay in to plates like pancakes and wrote with a stylus, then after done writing they let the clay dry in the sun.
3) They drew on plates of clay and on walls.

Current Events

Missing Iraqi antiquities located in PM Maliki's office, By Doesn't say the author
20 September 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11372473

This article is about Iraqi antiquities that have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum after being found in boxes in Prime Minister Maliki's office. The Iraqi artefacts have been stolen from Iraq a lot of time and later found in the US. There were more than 600 Iraqi antiquities that were stolen and some of the artefacts were 7,000 years of civilisation in Mesopotamia. All of the 638 artefacts were found in boxes in storage in the offices of Prime Minister Maliki. I choose this article because I had no idea about the artefacts that were stolen and I found that interesting. This article is related to the unit that we're studying in class, because today we learned about Mesopotamia in class and some of the artefacts that were stolen from Mesopotamia which is located in Iraq, between two rivers making it a Early River Civilization.

HW#6

Map Question 1:
The Continent where most of the earliest Agricultural sites is Europe.
Map Question 2:
The Geographic Features that favored the development of Agriculture areas before 5000 B.C. were the rivers or a river that were near it.


1. Nomad: is when a group of people travel around from place to place rather then staying in an area and settle there permanently.

Hunter-Gatherer: is when groups of people who follow the animals that they hunt and they collect plant food.

Neolithic Revolution: or the agricultural revolution, the far-reaching changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of farming.

Slash-and-Burning Farming: in which they cut trees or grasses and burned them to clear a field.

Domestication: the taming of animals.

2.
-Increase of farmers
-The change from food gatherers to food producers
-Different weather
-More food
-Easier source of food
-Healthier life

HW#5

HW#5

Video #1
1. The Nation that the video focused on is Ethiopia.
2. They discovered Lucy on the year 1974.
3. Lucy is 3.2 million years old.
4. Dipedal is a species that has two feet or two legs like Humans do.
5. Pangea was the continent where Humans started to evolve.

Video #2
1. The Hunters & Gatherers were constantly moving, because they wer following the herd of animals to eat.
2. When they were following the herds of animals they would gather nuts, wildberries and greens so they can eat them.
3. Lucy, I think would be a Gatherer mostly because she was a women and also men would doing all the hunting.

HW#4

1. Absolute Location is shown with latitude and longitude to show a specific location.
2.
a. The Absolute Location of Los Angeles is 34 degrees North latitude and 118 degrees West longitude.
b. The Absolute Location of Paris is 49 degrees North latitude and 2 degrees East longitude.
c. The Absolute Location of Capetown, South Africa is 34 degrees South latitude and 18 degrees East longitude.
3. Relative Location is describes a place in terms of it's relation to other places and things around it.
a. The Relative Location of London, England is on The Tems River.
4. The Relative Location of Queens, NY is on the LIRR.

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